Housekeeping-cabinet



STATES BERTHA S. WILKINS, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

HOUSEKEEPlNG-CABINET.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 521,628, dated June 19, 1894. Application filed November 6, 1393. Serial No. 490,082- (No model.)

.To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, BERTHA S. WILKINS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Housekeeping- Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

In apartment houses which are occupied by persons of moderate means it is usually desired by the occupants of the apartments to serve one or more meals each day in their rooms, and for the sake of economy, it has in many instances been heretofore necessary where light housekeeping is practiced to have the culinary arrangements exposed to view 7 when not in use. In many cases Where light housekeeping could be practiced to great advantage, it has been forbidden to the occupants of the apartments by the owners of the premises, for the reason that the disagreeable odors permeate the house and cause dissatisfaction among those who do not practice light housekeeping in their apartments.

My invention is adapted for use in apartment houses, offices, &c., and is designed to bring them into convenient use as sleeping and cooking rooms.

The object of my invention is to provide a compact and convenient cabinet which is adapted 'for instant use, when desired, and whereby the whole device including the culi nary apparatus and the devices used in light housekeeping may be concealed when not in use, and whereby all disagreeable odors from the cooking will be removed from the cabinetwithout being permitted to enter the room and whereby the folding bed will be ventilated.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention.

Figure 1 is afragmentary perspective front view of a cabinet embodying my invention, Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view on line 2-2 Fig. 1, looking toward the left. Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmental detail showing the arrangement of the cooking rack and the supporting bracket. Fig. 4 is adetail of the floor cloth and roller. Fig. dis a front view of the cabinet closed. Fig. 6is asectional view on line 66 Fig.1.

A represents the cooking cabinet which as shown in the drawings is built into the walls B of the building and is provided with a suitable door 0 arranged to close the front of the cabinet when not in use, whereby when the door to the cabinet is closed, the wall of the room presents the appearance of a Wall with a large door or an ornamental panel therein. 1

D is a sink and E is a movable cooking rack arranged above the sink and provided with suitable supporting brackets E adapted to support it in position to sustain the utensils for cooking.

F represents suitable movable gas burners or other source of heat arranged between the sink and the movable cooking rack and adapted to be moved out of the way when it is desired to use the sink.

By providing the movable cooking rack and the movable gas burner 'or other source of heat arranged immediately above the sink, great economy of space is secured. In order to furnish convenient means whereby the cooking rack maybe convenientlyand quickly removed out of the way from above the sink when desired, I provide the rack E with a series of transverse runner guiding rack arms 6, and arranged upon each of such arms is a runner 6 adapted to slide along such arm, and to this runnerI pivot one end of the support or brace E the other end of which brace is pivoted by a pivot e' to the rear wall A of the cabinet at a distance below the pivot e" of the arm 6. The several arms 6 and braces E, the runners e and the outer rail E constitute the cooking rack E. The support brace E, the runner guiding rack arm e, and the pivots e e of the arm and brace are so arranged with relation to each other that when the runner c' is at the extreme outer end of the runner guiding arm 6 and in engagement with a suitable stop such for instance as the outer connecting rail E" of the cooking rack which connects the outer ends of the several members 0, together, the supporting arm E will extend obliquely from the runner downward to the pivotal point of attachment of the support to the rear wall A of the cabinet, and the runner guiding arm e will be supported in a horizontal position to sustain the cooking utensils. When the rack E is being folded back toward the rear wall of the cabinet to the position indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2 the runners e slide along the runner guiding arms e, and the supporting braces E rise simultaneously with the arms to fold flat against the rear wall of the cabinet. Then the burners F, which are hinged to the supply pipe F by means of joints f, are folded against the rear wall of the cabinet and the sink is ready for use.

H represents a ventilating hood provided with an outlet h arranged communicating with the ventilating flue (not shown) and is its folded position.

adapted to carry off all the odors from the articles being cooked.

In order to provide means whereby the floor may be protected while the cabinet is in use and at the same time to avoid any unsightly appearance while the cabinet is not in use, I provide the front wall D' of the sink with a slot (1 extending horizontally along between the bottom of the wall and the floor I, and inside of the wall D of the sink I arrange a spring controlled roller J upon which is rolled a flexible floor protector K, which may be of oil-cloth or any other flexible material de sired and has its outer end 70 passed outward through the slot d and provided with a slot closing strip K adapted and arranged to be drawn against the front wall of the sink by the force of the spring of the roller when the flexible floor protector is wound upon the spring roller to thereby close the slot and entirely conceal the protector and the slot from View. L represents a folding bed which is adapted to fold into the recess L in the wall. The bottom of the bed maybe paneled to present the appearance of a door when the bed is in A ventilating outlet Z leads from the recess L into the ventilating hood H and insures a proper ventilation of the bed when in its folded position and also provides for circulation of air over the head of the sleeper so as to make it comfortable for the occupant to sleep with the head within the recess of the wall.

A great objection to folding beds has arisen from the fact that they are closed when not in use, and do not become thoroughly aired when closed. By myimproved arrangement of providing the ventilating hood H and the outlet h arranged communicating with the ventilating flue (not shown) and also providing the ventilating outlet 1 leading from the bed recess L into the ventilating hood II, when the bed is closed as shown in Figs. 5 and 6 whenever the burner F in the cooking cabinet is in use the hot air rises and causes a draft through the ventilating outlet h which draws the air through the outlet Z from the bed recess L and thereby causes a perfect ventilation of the bed. A ventilating opening Z is provided between the head of the bed and the floor I when the bed is in its closed position to thereby insure that the circulation of air takes place along the entire length of the bed, not simply at one portion thereof.

Now, havingdescribed my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The house-keeping cabinet set forth provided with a sink and with a cooking rack arranged above such sink, pivoted to the wall of the cabinet and adapted to fold against such wall and to unfold into a horizontal position above such sink, and the fuel burner pivoted to the wall of the cabinet and arranged to fold theroagainst and to unfold to bring the burner beneath the cooking rack when such rack is unfolded into its horizontal position.

BERTHA S. WILKINS.

Witnesses:

JAMES R. TOWNSEND, ALFRED I. TOWNSEND. 

